i love to cook food...shoot food. i love to play with food and i love to eat food...soooo, here are my comments, thoughts, recipes and pics of foods i come across. it might be on my plate, your plate, someone elses plate or my dream plate...

Monday, August 23, 2010

soooooooo easy, low fat, waist friendly, and quite delicious. i can't believe i haven't run across this recipe before. i'm always on the war path for things that aren't full sugar-full fat and these fit the bill. so easy and fast, i've already made them 2x's and i would have some in the oven right now, but BIG AL is baking a Pineapple Upside Down Cake...i don't know...all the sudden he felt like making his own cake...uh oh...could that be a subtle hint?...good?..or bad? i must admit, i haven't been baking much lately...i'm more into savory right now. the poor guy used to get a new fancy dessert every night. now sometimes he gets ice cream and...shhhhhh...store-bought cookies. trust me...i feel the shame. i have to get my baking boots back on. this was a simple start.

a great find..besides being one of those "this-isn't-gonna-work" recipes, it's fun to make and it's kid friendly...did i mention it's fairly waist friendly as well? low fat with no added oil and egg whites only. so fast to whip up and, like i said, a no-brainer.i know it's from a box, BUT the fun is in the flavor combos. so far i've made these Pineapple Ginger Ale Cupcakes topped with crystallized ginger, freeze dried pineapple and a classic vanilla butter cream frosting. also, not shown, was a butter cake and diet cream soda with toasted pecans...a little maple glaze might have been great, but i was keeping it a little lo-cal for my pals.

DIET SODA CUPCAKE/CAKEi think the recipe came from Weight Watchers, but i found this one at Food.com

preheat oven according to mixprepare cupcake tin or 9x13 pan (lightly spray or oil). i don't think cupcake papers will work well with this...use a tin or silicon cups.blend all ingredients well-no lumpsbake according to box-mix or when tooth pick comes out cleanlet cool completely before topping.

This fascinated me and I had to try it. I am still fascinated but full of light, delicious cupcake! I don't know how it works but this has wonderful flavor and very light texture. Going to top it with a little reduced sugar frosting and feed it to the grandkids tonight!Thanks...I used the diet ginger ale and white cake mix. yummy!

I made these for a Labor Day party over the weekend. I like to offer a choice for dessert - a light one and a full-fat dessert. These went just as quickly as the ice cream dessert I made! I used the yellow cake mix and diet 7-Up. With a dollop of fat free whipped cream on top they were delicious!

So I decided that I had to try it! I used strawberry cake mix and diet cherry 7-Up. So we'll see how it goes. If this is at all palatable, Im going to try white cake mix and diet green tea ginger ale :)

hi Mary...i bet it could be. i have seen similar recipes with this diet soda mixture that use a "cake pan". maybe a pound-cake pan might be too thick? i have only made cupcakes. let me know if you try it...thanks

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ahhh...welcome to my little world of flavors. you'll see that my food obsessions vary from one extreme to the other. from nice safe little shortbreads and blondies to spicy chicken feet and BBQ pigs tails. I hope you enjoy the spectrum of goodies and follow Ruby and i on our our culinary trip to who knows where...my thought is...if it looks good, it'll taste even better AND IF IT LOOKS UGLY, I HAVE TO TRY IT !!!

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